CONFERENCE:
Food Sustainability & Food Security
February 5-7,
2009
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Conference
Theme:
In conjunction
with the UCSB Humanities Center's yearlong "Food Matters"
program, the Department of English is organizing an interdisciplinary
conference that will address the closely related topics of food
sustainability and food security. The conference aims to provide a
forum for sharing recent research findings in this area and to
investigate the future of food studies as an interdisciplinary field
of inquiry. In response to current international conflicts over
hunger, food prices, and genetically modified seeds, the matter of
food has become central to both environmental and economic
policymaking. In this context, the interdisciplinary field of food
studies has a new purchase. This conference will gather some of the
country's leading food scholars--many of whom are affiliated with the
UC system--to examine the meaning of food sustainability in particular
regional contexts from Africa to the Middle East to the Americas. The
conference will provide a timely occasion for scholars from the
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences as well as activists and
farmers to dialogue about the global food system in both contemporary
and historical contexts. For further information, contact Allison
Carruth:
allisoncarruth@english.ucsb.edu.
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/foodsustainability.html
Tentative
Schedule:
Thursday, February 5
12:00-1:00 Conference introduction/reception
1:00-2:30 Sessions A & B (TBD)
5:00-6:30 Keynote address: "Can Food Be a Force for Social
Change?"
Darra Goldstein, Editor of Gastronomica & Professor of Russian at Williams
College
6:30-8:00 Possible screening of The Garden
All day Photography exhibition, Barron Bixler, "New
Pastoral"
Friday,
February 6
9:00-12:15 Sessions C &D (TBD)
1:30-4:45 Sessions E & F (TBD)
5:00-6:30 Roundtable: "Food Sovereignty and Some Futures for
California Agriculture"
Moderator: Professor David Cleveland, Dept. of Environmental Studies,
UCSB
Participants: Eric Cardenas (Environmental Defense Center), Melissa
Cohen (Isla Vista Co-Op),
Teresa Figueroa (Fund for Santa Barbara)
Saturday,
February 7
10:00-11:30 Session G (TBD)
12:00-1:00 Closing discussion / wrap-up: "Some Futures for Food
Studies"
For more information, visit
http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/foodstudiesconference2.html.
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Food
Sustainability & Food Security
Invitational Conference
Keynote
Speaker Darra Goldstein http://www.darragoldstein.com/
February 5-7,
2009
UCSB
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, McCune Room